Pancake in the medibay

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"Did you say something?" asked Pancake, turning around to look back at Keto.
"What!? No! Nothing!" spluttered the doctor, waving the rag around and grinning
like a maniac, "Hymenoptera hybrid, you got it, coming right up!"
"Great," nodded Pancake, his attention already drifting back towards Rosette.
<end snip>
Who: Justin and Dr Keto
Where: Medibay
When: The next day
Justin walked into the medibay with a really big grin on his face. He steadied
himself against a bio-bed, and then knocked over a shelf full of sterilised
medical equipment.
"Hi doc!" he said excitedly, as if nothing had happened.
"Pancake, are you drunk?"
"I urrr...." Justin looked down at the floor. "Hey doc, there's some scalpels
and smeg down here. That's dangerous!"
Dr Keto walked over and quickly ordered Vanessa his nurse to pick up the
equipment. "Those will have to be sterilised again. Please be careful!" He
scolded.
"Sorry doc, I... *hic*." Justin said, then made a face like he was going to be
sick.
Keto quickly put a sick bucket under his mouth.
Justin paused. Then just looked up. "Err get that away from me." He said.
"Mr Pancake, why are you drunk at this time in the morning?" Said Keto.
Justin looked at his watch. "Because I don't have to work until this afternoon.
How else am I going to spend my time?"
Keto didn't answer that. He just looked disaprovingly at the drunk man.
"Soooo." Said Justin, and his face started to beam. "Do you have something for
me?"
"I only prescribe hangover tablets when it's life or death."
"No! I mean the little talk we had yesterday. About the Hymenoptera blood, eh,
eh?" Justin said happily.
Keto grunted and walked over to some vials on a table. "Yes. Here's the sample
that I was able to extract from the napkin you gave me."
He showed an extremely small vial to Justin, with a single drop of Hymenoptera
blood in it.
"What?! Is that it?" Justin asked. "That napkin was soaked in green bloody
goodness."
"Well yes. When we got larger, the napkin remained the same size. That's all
there is." Keto said.
Justin whines and moaned. "Awww, that's useless. What am I supposed to do with
that?"
Keto shrugged his shoulders. "I don't even know what you were planning to do
with it in the first place!"
"Inject it. Eat it. Snort it. Smoke it. I dunno!" Said Justin. "Whatever will
make it turn me into a Hymenoptera!"
Keto scratched the back of his neck. "I'm not sure if it will. Remember what I
said about eating a rare steak? Even if it's dripping with blood it won't turn
you into a cow."
Justin whined and started kicking the edge of the table with his toe. "It's not
fair" He said. "Why does Rosette get to be a Hymenoptera crossbreed, and I
can't. She doesn't even want to be one!"
Keto rolled his eyes.
"I can't believe I'm going to say this..." Said Keto. "But if you get a larger
sample of Hymenoptera blood, I'll try and synthesise something for you."
"Like a Hymenoptera ointment?"
"Exactly!" Said Keto, with something as close to a smile as Justin had ever
seen.
"And a fee of 750 dollarpounds!"
"Will do doc!" Said Justin, trotting out of the door. "Wait. What? I don't have
that much money!"
Keto shrugged. "Your loss."
Justin sighed and gripped the vial he had of the tiny amount of blood. "Maybe
this is all I'll get for a while." He admitted.
It only took a second before Keto realised what the drunk engineer was going to
do.
Justin unscrewed the top of the vial and poured the drop of Hymenoptera blood
down his throat.
Keto watched, as Justin stood there, waiting to see if anything would happen.
Keto himself wasn't sure what would happen, Justin might sprout six spider legs,
or grow extra eyes, or start spinning webs out of his bottom.
He burped.
"Well..." Said Keto, stepping back behind a desk just in case Justin felt the
murderous instinct of the Hymenoptera come over him. "...do you feel any
different."
"Tastes.... like when you swallow a fly." Justin admitted.
Keto grabbed a scalpel for protection. In his minds eye he saw Justin turning
green, the colour of the large insects. But he didn't, Justin remained the same
colour. He didn't change at all.
"Oh smeg." Said Justin, and threw the vial in the bin. "It didn't do anything."
Keto was relieved, and put the scalpel back down on the table.
"Oh well. Time to go to work. I don't think I've done any since I came aboard."
Justin admitted, and turned to walk out. As he did so he stopped by some glass
cases at the side of the room. One was an aquarium, several contained lab rats,
and one contained a large dragonfly.
"Ooh, what are these?" Justin asked.
"Please don't touch, they are all for testing new ointments on." Keto admitted.
Before Keto could stop him, Justin's mischievous fingers had opened up the box
containing the dragonfly and it flew out, and started circling the room.
"Sorry doc!" He said.
"Just leave. Now!" Said Keto.
Justin turned to leave but the insect followed him. "Hey it likes me!" he said.
"Maybe it's the Hymenoptera blood. Does it have a name?"
"No."
"I'll call him Dave. Can it be my pet? I've never had a pet dragonfly before."
"No, now please leave. And don't let it get outside. It's very important for
ointment #388!"
"Okay I'll-*gulp*"
Justin's eyes widened. Keto bit his lip.
"I'm really sorry." Justin choked. "I ate your dragonfly."
"OUT!" Keto demanded.
<To be continued! Or if you're clever (I know you are!) and you can guess whats
going to happen next, please go ahead and post it!>